The Most Insane Actor Ever - Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski, the most insane actor ever, is a German actor that appeared in over 130 films including many spaghetti westerns. Most famous of them being For a Few Dollars More and five Werner Herzog films. He is so notorious for his on set antics and constant rages that an Indigenous tribe offered to take him out for Werner Herzog, a producer contemplated having him taken out for insurance money, and even Herzog himself threatened to take him out when Kinski went too far.

In this video we'll be going over Klaus Kinski's past productions and moments in his life that are notorious for his behaviour. The five Werner Herzog collaborations Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre, Woyzeck, Fitzcarraldo, and Cobra Verde. His solo Jesus Christ Savior tour. The infamous and well documented production of Crawlspace. And some new revelations about his daughters that helped tarnish his legacy.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:53 - Early Life and Career
03:52 - Jesus Christ Savior Tour
05:33 - Werner Herzog & Aguirre
11:02 - Nosferatu & Woyzeck
12:52 - Fitzcarraldo
17:00 - Crawlspace & Cobra Verde
20:25 - Final Years and Revelations

Klaus Kinski. Werner Herzog. Clint Eastwood. Aguirre, the Wrath of God. Nosferatu the Vampyre. Woyzeck. Fitzcarraldo. Cobra Verde. Crawlspace. Jesus Christ Savior. German Actor. Doctor Zhivago. Pola Kinski. Indigenous Actors. Paganini. Burden of Dreams.

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[FilmStack]

Hey everyone! Make sure to check out our new Werner Herzog video if you haven't already for some even wilder production stories!

Since this video is picking up lots of views we just wanted to make a correction and a clarification:
1. We made a mistake in our script with the crowd's chants at Kinski during his Jesus tour. Thankfully the clip used has English subtitles that have what the chants actually were (thanks everyone who pointed it out).
2. We aren't putting Woody Allen at the same level as Roman Polanski in terms of allegations and other controversy. They were just two examples of people who don't have a super clean past that some would "separate the art from the artist" to enjoy their films more.
Anyways, thanks for checking us out!

[sethleoric]

I get this was a serious encounter, but the idea that Wener Herzog tamed Kinski by threatening to kill him had me dying.

[Dhamma_Nomad]

I love that everyone seemed to reach a point where they seriously considered murdering Kinski rather than having to endure another moment with him.

[ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind]

Life is precious. It is not worth it to be angry all the time.
-Not Klaus Kinski

[geraldmartin]

I've always wondered how Kinski wound up in "For a Few Dollars More" (1965) and what director Sergio Leone thought of him. Kinski's role is tiny; but his display of barely suppressed rage when Lee Van Cleef strikes a match off his ear is memorable in its intensity.

[nyl]

You gotta admit, Werner Herzog was kind of insane himself for putting up with Kinski

[myself]

He really was insane, not just in an artsy way but properly insane. Just look at some of his interviews, he isnt even able to answer most basic questions without a tantrum

[salazarmandragora]

In other words watch his films in honor of the people who survived putting up with him to make them.

[bmav]

If the man was diagnosed with psychopathy, that’s literally all you need to know for his behavior to make sense. He was a tyrant because he was physically incapable of feeling normal levels of empathy toward other human beings. His habits of self-promotion and raging at the slightest loss of attention are also clear signals of this syndrome.

[johnsononey]

Considering the abuse of his daughter Pola since the age of 5, he was a vile human being .

[Pssybart]

That story about Herzog eating a chocolate in front of Kinski just to confuse him really killed me. I guess no one understood Kinski better than Herzog.

[janekmundt]

I respect Werner Herzog even more now, he willingly worked with Kinski, maybe because he was one of the only directors who really understood how to work with Kinski. For example making him rage and starting to film his angry silence afterwards is unconventional, funny and brilliant.

[Noone-of-your-Business]

Kinski's audience insultations are so notorious in Germany that in recent years a very talented comedian named Max Giermann has had great success with Kinski impersonations, basically just insulting everyone and anyone. Positively hilarious.

[Vampirlestat]

Kinski was also quite intelligent. He could fluently rage and curse in German, English, Italian, French and Spanish

[TestTest-hugj]

Its really hard to give in into the fascination of Kinski after stories surfaced he was a rapist, pedophile and even using his own daughters. Pola Kinski wrote a book about her traumatic childhood in 2013 and Nastasia Kinski was always saying her dad was a creep without criminl evidential details. Kinski was protected by a system of cowards who choose to look away. Klaus Kinski is/was one of the biggest monsters in the industry.

[boblangford]

I love how despite the craziness of Kinski, the villagers were still more afraid of Werner.

[besmus]

One "AcTuAlLy" thing i'd like to point out: the natives weren't afraid of Kinski. They we're afraid of Herzog. In their culture only weak and fearful people scream and yell. Throughout his outburst Herzog remianed silent which terrified the natives. So out of respect they offered to kill Kinski.

[kkarx]

He basically played himself in every single movie.

[jantschierschky]

Growing up in Germany born 63, Kinski was a household name. His ability as actor was great respected, but as a human being hated by many. Nobody wanted to interview him, or invited him to TV studios or public events, unless specific to honour him.
I meet him when I was working in a hotel he visited. He was actually a good customer, but bit restlessness.

[jonnybarnard]

Kinski definitely crossed the line from difficult to work with to just terrible human being